Teri Garr, ‘Young Frankenstein’ and ‘Tootsie’ actress, dead at 79
“Teri Garr was a comedic acting genius who was and is a huge influence on me and I know I’m not alone in that,” Kudrow toldGarr first appeared on “ Friends ” in 1997, playing Phoebe Abbott, the estranged birth mother of Kudrow’s character, Phoebe Buffay, and Phoebe’s twin sister, Ursula Buffay .
Garr went on to play Abbott in two more episodes of “Friends”: “The One with the Jellyfish” and “The One with Phoebe’s Uterus,” both airing in 1998 during the series’ fourth season.by her publicist, Heidi Schaeffer, who told The Post the star passed away Tuesday morning in Los Angeles after a long battle with multiple sclerosis. Garr was reportedly surrounded by family and friends. She was 79..
Garr followed up that performance with parts in two films, Francis Ford Coppola’s thriller “The Conversation” and Steven Spielberg’s sci-fi film “Close Encounters of the Third Kind” before starring in “Tootsie.” She continued working in movies and TV until 2011.In 2002, the actress revealed that she had been diagnosed with MS. “I really didn’t think there was any reason to come out and say anything about it,” Garr said during an interview with CNN’s Larry King at the time.
She suffered a brain aneurysm in 2006, though she recovered and was able to return to acting before her 2011 retirement.
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